What do professional riders think of ＂Breaking the Wind＂？ Peng Yuyan’s big muscles are not suitable for road cycling

[Editor’s note]

Recently, Peng Yuyan, Dou Xiao and Cui Shiyuan, the surging performances and explosive appearance of the three "fresh meat" in the movie "Breaking Wind" made the girls scream non-stop. But after 12 days of release, according to the box office statistics of Cat’s Eye, the box office of the movie "Breaking Wind" is 130 million, which is not too outstanding.

In the eyes of veteran cycling enthusiasts and professional riders, "Breaking Wind" is just a "virtual arena" with blood.

In China, the air, road surfaces and a fragmented suburban road system make road cycling a gentleman’s sport out of reach. Too many riding "god tactics" that need to be customized for the plot make the film less authentic.

Of course, sports-themed movies require artistic processing and storytelling, and this article aims to provide a more realistic understanding of the cycling world.

Breaking Wind, a name much hotter than reality

Since it is called "Breaking Wind", let’s talk about the origin of this word first.

After visiting several road enthusiasts and riders, although most of them knew the meaning, the name was never used in actual competitions. The so-called "windbreaker" is just what we call the leader, and in the final stage of the flat road race, their name was slightly changed, called "sprinter", English is "leadout man".

As for the leader of each team, in fact, it is not necessarily the so-called "sprinter", this name is more suitable for the championship contender on the flat road stage.

Regardless of whether it was a "wind breaker" or a "sprinter", in the real game, the distribution of work was different rather than the level in the absolute sense. As a conflicting description of film and television works, it was easy to mislead fans’ inspirational direction.

Since cooperation and division of labor are mentioned, another character, "Rabbit", cannot be ignored. In the film, Peng Yuyan, who was the first to start the Gobi stage, actually took on this position.

"Rabbit" almost completely gave up their role of serving the team in the big group competition. Usually their task is to take the lead in highlighting the big team and disrupt the deployment and process of the entire big group, especially the team with the leading team points and the team where the champion is located.

Premature prominence means that it is difficult for them to win the championship, but they are definitely heroes, and the "dare to fight" award in the Tour de France stage usually belongs to them, because road cycling is never a race of ego, but a team race.

Do drivers need "monster fighting upgrades"?

In order to solve all kinds of hot-blooded young people and not be confused in various professional cycling terms, in the world of "Breaking Wind", road cycling is very simple. The events are divided into one, two or three grades, and the teams are also divided into one, two or three grades. Riders need to "fight monsters and upgrade" step by step, just like the five major football leagues in Europe.

In reality, except for the World Tour (the so-called first-class event in the movie), all other professional races are classified as intercontinental races, which are divided into HC, first-class, second-class and so on;

In terms of teams, it is not much different from the movie, divided into first-level Proteam, second-level Pro Conti and third-level Conti teams. In the movie, teams of each level have to participate in different races in the corresponding level of competition; in reality, teams of different levels can actually compete across levels, for example, Pro Conti can also log in to the Tour de France through wild cards.

The most crucial thing is that the team points system in the movie does not exist in reality, and the types of races vary widely.

Similarly, the film introduced many professional terms for bicycles, such as the high-speed troubleshooting of logistics vehicles; the manager’s daughter Mac contains a large amount of real-time data, such as heart rate, cadence, speed, and power; the team manager sits firmly in the team car and various "divine commands"…

But in fact, they don’t allow the use of radios at that level of competition.

Peng Yuyan’s big muscles are hard to see in road races

No matter the movie or the reality, people are the protagonists of society. Of course, the movie will amplify the protagonist and amplify the conflict. The structure of the conflict points in "Breaking Wind" is quite reasonable. From the perspective of competition, the competition scene of the three male protagonists competing with each other is basically the main clue of the whole film.

In addition to the tense face-to-face scenes, of course, there are also salivating looks and small muscles in return, but in the blink of an eye, the winners of the Tour de France seem to be out of the same level in terms of looks and strength as in the film.

A lot of people don’t have road cycling experience, so I use sprinting and long-distance running to explain the body problem.

Sprint running requires explosive power, and long-distance running requires endurance. Muscles not only consume a lot of oxygen during exercise, but also generate a large amount of lactic acid accumulation that affects the continuity of exercise. Therefore, the average weight, muscle weight, fat weight, and blood oxygen content of real intercontinental team competitors all have strict bottom-line indicators.

In layman’s terms, most large-scale road race champions are basically "hemp bodies" that look as thin as monkeys, so that their own fat and muscle levels can make lactic acid accumulation slower, the heart load is smaller, and the wind resistance is also smaller because of the benefits of weight loss.

From the perspective of the real-world driver type, Zheng Zhiyuan (Cui Siyuan) is a typical flat-road sprint driver, while the setting of Qiu Ming (Peng Yuyan) and Qiu Tian (Dou Xiao) is completely inexplicable.

In the real world, the aura of the protagonist above Qiu Ming’s head was too huge, and he was banned from the race and did not train behind closed doors. He drank a few times, and went downhill at high speed without wearing a helmet.

This kind of protagonist aura really made a large number of "Ji Cheng fans" (Ji Cheng: the first person in China’s Tour de France) cry.

Based on a real car crash

Going back to the venue events in the movie, the Madison race in Busan in "Breaking the Wind" is a gambling event similar to horse racing and dog racing. This race is quite crude and cruel like Lin Chaoxian’s previous police films, but it is in line with his own characteristics.

Judging from the video of the "Madison Race" on the Internet, it is common to see 12 drivers, 10 of them fall, and the ground is covered in blood. The one who does not fall becomes the champion. In order to increase the tension of the race, Lin Chaoxian specially designed the rainy day race to be extremely dangerous.

For example, the key game of Wang Luodan in the film, although the cause and process of the car crash in the film and the final result make the whole event seem magical, the plot is entirely based on real events.

On November 16, 2010, Huang Yunyao represented Hong Kong in the 2010 Asian Games. The final lasted 80 laps. By lap 39, the South Korean driver suddenly lost control of the corner and fell to the ground, knocking down the second-placed Huang Yunyao; while the following three drivers, Diao Xiaojuan and others, ducked and ran over Huang Yunyao’s body. The incident left five drivers injured. Huang Yunyao ran the remaining 40 laps with a broken rib on her right side and won a silver medal for Hong Kong.

At the subsequent awards ceremony, Huang Yunyao needed to sit in a wheelchair and temporarily support her ribs with cardboard and tape before she could slowly step onto the podium to receive the award.

Intrigue? Don’t "smear" the real car race

The cruelty of car crashes is often reflected more nervously in the big group, which is why it is necessary to include crash footage in the promotion films of the Tour de France over the years. Therefore, "Breaking Wind" has created a large number of various crash footage and events as a visual climax for each part.

There are a lot of blocking tactics in the movie game, and they are deliberately blocked in the final sprint. Not only is it rare in the real game, but it is also very dangerous.

What is incomprehensible is that the film depicts the referee in a very dark manner. In fact, as a gentleman’s sports team road race, it is basically impossible for such a scene to occur. In the field of work, in addition to being punished by severe competition system, the team’s morality and image will also be greatly affected.

Secondly, such a high profile as fighting with injuries was completely unsuitable for the development trajectory of cycling. Wang Luodan was strangely injured by a crank, and the team doctor actually let her continue competing…

In addition, the climax created by the director for the film is actually the biggest failure of the whole film. The imaginary Tengger Desert race is full of dangerous elements: it never rains in a hundred years, the supply logistics can’t keep up for two hours, the riders don’t drink much water and ride in the desert for two hours, and the final sprint, magic tactics…

Although the intention is good, this content is completely made up.

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